Beacon Primary School
Davis Road, New Invention, Walsall, WV12 5HA
This school is closed (it closed in August 2025).
It was replaced by Beacon Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Headteacher Claire Chandler
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton North East
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 485
- Pupils on roll
- 501
- URN
- 131580
- Local authority
- Walsall
About this school
Beacon Primary School was a community primary school in Walsall. It taught children aged 2 to 11 and had 501 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Beacon Primary School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in April 1999, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 58 | 61 | 60 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 78% | 72% | 77% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 2% | 7% | 8% |
| Expected standard in reading | 84% | 79% | 78% |
| Expected standard in maths | 83% | 85% | 87% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 78% | 75% | 80% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 104.0 | 104.0 | 105.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 103.0 | 105.0 | 106.0 |
| Reading progress | +0.90 | - | - |
| Writing progress | +0.90 | - | - |
| Maths progress | +0.50 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Beacon Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Walsall average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 78% | 56.4% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 72% | 57.3% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 77% | 57.2% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 9.4% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 6.8% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 6.8% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 492 |
| 2023/24 | 498 |
| 2024/25 | 501 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Beacon Primary School compares
Its KS2 result was higher than 82% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 28% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 77% | 6.8% | 49.3% | 501 | — |
| Beacon Academy | — | — | — | 488 | 0.0 miles |
| New Invention Infant School | — | 4.3% | 20.4% | 320 | 0.4 miles |
| New Invention Learning Academy | 79% | 2.6% | 22.2% | 362 | 0.4 miles |
| Woodlands Academy of Learning | 69% | 5.1% | 34.5% | 446 | 0.6 miles |
| St Alban's Church of England Primary Academy | 55% | 6.4% | 35% | 191 | 0.7 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 49.28%
- English as an additional language
- 13%
- Overall absence
- 6.77%
- Persistent absence
- 19.05%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Beacon Academy0.0 miles
Primary · Walsall
-
New Invention Infant School0.4 miles
Primary · Willenhall
-
New Invention Learning Academy0.4 miles
Primary · Willenhall
-
Woodlands Academy of Learning0.6 miles
Primary · Willenhall
-
St Alban's Church of England Primary Academy0.7 miles
Primary · Wolverhampton
Other schools in Walsall
- Abbey Primary School Primary
- All Saints National Academy Primary
- Alumwell Infant School Primary
- Alumwell Junior School Primary
- Beacon Academy Primary
- Bentley West Primary School Primary
- Birchills Church of England Community Academy Primary
- Blue Coat Church of England Aided Infant School Primary
- Blue Coat Church of England Aided Junior School Primary
- Brownhills West Primary School Primary
- Busill Jones Primary School Primary
- Butts Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What ages does Beacon Primary School teach?
- Beacon Primary School taught children aged 2 to 11. It was a primary school in Walsall.
- Has Beacon Primary School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Beacon Primary School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How many pupils are at Beacon Primary School?
- Beacon Primary School had 501 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 2 to 11.
- How have Beacon Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 78% in 2022/23 and 77% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Beacon Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Beacon Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 31 August 2025.